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Hello friend, I'm Hope, and I'm really glad you're here today.
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Welcome to English with Hope, a calm space for your mind and your heart.
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In this channel, you don't have to be perfect, you don't have to rush.
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Here we learn English slowly, we listen English gently, no pressure, no stress.
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And here, you are not alone.
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Wherever you are in the world, I'm right here with you.
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So, relax your shoulders, take a slow breath, and let's begin.
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Maybe you are sitting on your bed right now.
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Maybe you are looking out the window watching the sun go down.
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And there is a feeling in your heart, a heavy feeling, like a gray cloud.
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You think to yourself, what did I do today?
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You look at your phone.
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You see people doing big things.
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You see people traveling, working, laughing.
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And then you look at your room.
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It is quiet.
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It feels like nothing happened.
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You feel like you wasted the sun.
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You feel like you wasted the air.
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And it hurts, doesn't it?
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Can you feel that weight in your chest?
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That little voice that whispers, you are failing.
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You are losing time.
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You are wasting your life.
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I want you to take a breath with me.
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A very slow breath.
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In and out.
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It's okay to feel this way.
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You are not the only one.
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Sometimes we think life is a race.
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We think if we are not running, we are losing.
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But what if just for a moment you stop?
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What if the day wasn't wasted?
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What if the day was just quiet?
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Can you feel the air on your skin right now?
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Is it warm?
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Is it cool?
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Just feel it.
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We worry so much about the future.
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We worry about the grand life.
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But life is not always grand.
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Sometimes life is just a cup of tea.
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Sometimes life is just staying alive, and that is enough.
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Have you felt that weight before?
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The weight of thinking you should be someone else.
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You should be further ahead.
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I want to tell you something.
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A secret.
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Time is not a bank account.
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You don't spend it.
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You live it.
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Even when you are resting.
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Even when you are sad.
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You are living.
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You are not a machine you are a human
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and humans need to be still like the trees in the
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winter the trees don't grow in winter they just stay they
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wait are they wasting their time no they are gathering strength
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deep in the dark ground their roots are getting stronger maybe just maybe you are in your winter right now
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and that's okay.
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It's more than okay.
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We live in a world of noise.
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Everywhere we look, someone is telling us to go, be better, do more, don't waste a second.
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They call it the grand life, a life of big achievements, a life of constant movement, but I think this is a lie,
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a very loud, very heavy lie.
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We see pictures of people always smiling, always busy, and we think that is what a life should look like.
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We think if our life is small, it is not valuable.
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If we don't have a big job or a big house or big stories, we are wasting our potential.
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Do you ever feel that pressure?
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The pressure to be big.
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What if I told you that the small moments are the real life?
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The way the light hits the floor, the sound of the rain, the feeling of a soft blanket.
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These things are not wasting time.
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These things are the heart of life.
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The grand life is often very tired.
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The grand life is often very lonely.
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Sometimes, we chase a version of ourselves that doesn't even exist.
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We want to be the perfect you, the one who never gets tired, the one who is always productive, but that person is a shadow.
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They are not real.
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You are real.
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Your tiredness is real.
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Your need for rest is real and your small life is enough what
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if it's okay to just rest right now what
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if your only job today was to breathe think about a
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flower a flower does not work it does not try to
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be grand it just opens it just is does the flower waste its life
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because it doesn't run because it doesn't make money no it is beautiful
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because it exists you are like that flower your value is not in your work.
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I remember my grandfather's house.
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It was a very old house, full of shadows and soft dust.
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In the hallway, there was a tall clock, an old wooden clock.
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It made a very loud sound.
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Tick, tick, tick.
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As a child.
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That sound scared me.
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It felt like a giant heartbeat.
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I felt like the clock was chasing me.
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I felt like I had to hurry.
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But my grandfather, he was never in a hurry.
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He would sit in his chair, watching the garden for hours.
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He didn't look at the clock.
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He looked at the birds.
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He looked at the rain.
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One day, I asked him, Grandpa, aren't you worried?
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The clock is moving so fast.
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Aren't you wasting your time?
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He smiled at me.
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He said, hope.
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The clock is just a machine.
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It measures time, but it does not know life.
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The bird in the tree does not have a clock.
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The flower in the grass does not have a schedule.
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They are not wasting anything.
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They are just being.
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We think the ticking clock is a warning, a warning that we are losing.
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But time is just the space where your life happens.
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It is not your enemy, it is your home.
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I want to talk about a word that makes us tired.
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Productivity.
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We are told that our value is equal to our work.
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If we do ten things today, we are good.
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If we do zero things, we are bad.
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We treat ourselves like a phone battery.
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We are only useful when we are at 100%.
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But you are not a phone, you are a human being.
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A machine has a purpose to produce.
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A human has a soul.
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Think about a sleeping baby.
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The baby does nothing.
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It does not work.
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It does not earn money.
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It just breathes.
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And yet that baby is the most valuable thing in the world.
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We love the baby just because it exists.
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When did you forget that you are still that baby?
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When did you start demanding a price for your life?
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You might think that everyone else has a plan, that everyone else is waking up early,
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but behind the closed doors of every house there is someone like you someone wondering
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if they are doing enough the internet is just a highlights
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reel it is not the whole truth the truth is most
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people spend their days just trying to be okay we don't
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need a big plan to change we don't need to fix our whole life by tomorrow what
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if we just decided to be kind to our own hearts for just five minutes.
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Start with your body.
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Touch the fabric of your shirt.
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Drink a glass of water slowly.
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Listen to the sound of the world.
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These are the small anchors.
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They hold you to the earth.
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You have been traveling a long road, a road made of shoulds and musts.
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But look around you.
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The road is ending here.
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You are allowed to just stop, to put down your heavy bags, to come home to yourself.
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You are not waiting for your life to start.
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It is happening in the way you listen to my voice.
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A wasted life is only a life where we forgot to notice that we were alive, but you are noticing now, and that changes everything.
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Remember the tree in the winter.
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Remember the baby.
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You have everything you need.
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You are exactly where you are supposed to be.
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Take this feeling with you.
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Put it in your pocket like a smooth, warm stone.
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Thank you for sharing your time and your heart with me.
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Goodbye, friend.

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動画の中で特に難しい単語9語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。

単語発音意味
tick 名詞/tɪk/だに, ごさらぎ
hurry 動詞/ˈhʌ.ɹi/急ぐ
tiredness 名詞疲れ, 疲労
heartbeat 名詞/ˈhɑɹtˌbit/心拍
anchor 名詞/ˈæŋ.kəː/錨
scare 動詞/skɛɚ/威かす, 驚かす
blanket 名詞/ˈblæŋ.kɪt/毛布
gently 副詞/ˈd͡ʒɛntli/そっと
productivity 名詞/ˌpɹɒdʌkˈtɪvəti/生産性

動画に出てくる句動詞

単語発音意味
go down 動詞降りる, 降下する
look around 動詞見回す
wake up 動詞/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/目覚める, 目を覚ます

繰り返し練習したい文

動画に出てくる短く完結した文です。日常会話でそのまま使えます。

  • You think to yourself, what did I do today?
  • Can you feel that weight in your chest?
  • Have you felt that weight before?
  • Do you ever feel that pressure?
  • Aren't you wasting your time?

注意したい発音

話し手はdon't, doesn't, I'mなど、短縮形や弱形を20回使っています。聞こえたとおりの短い形で発音しましょう。

日本語話者が苦手な音:

  • 子音の連続 — 間に母音を入れない: heartbeat /ˈhɑɹtˌbit/, whisper /ˈ(h)wɪspɚ/, distress /dɪˈstɹɛs/, scare /skɛɚ/, blanket /ˈblæŋ.kɪt/

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  1. まず声を出さずに動画を最後まで聞き、知らない単語をメモします。
  2. まず0.75倍速で一文ずつシャドーイングし、慣れてきたら通常の速度に戻します。
  3. 自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。tick, hurry, tirednessなどの単語に特に注意しましょう。

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